Emma and Sid get ALL wet

We took the dogs to Lowville, last Friday. Its a lovely little place up The Guelph Line almost as far as the 401. The big attraction is the stream, but the park is very nice and there is a little restaurant there (which we have yet to try). (hint, hint)

So, we wanted Emma to go in the water. Now normally she sees a puddle and she's in it, but this time hubby had to take her into the stream. She kept swimming back to shore, so he would take her further in and, again, back to shore. Finally he had her in the middle and she then figured it was as easy coming to me as going back to shore. That's when this video was shot.

What I didn't get, was the fun time she had shaking all over me. And she holds a lot of water! ! ! ! I was really hoping for one of those cool pictures of the water flying out from her face in a pretty stream of water droplets, the sun glistening off each one, perhaps a reflection in them.

But, alas, what I did get was drenched.

Because she got me from the front, side and back, the front being the worst. Although, to be honest, after the first shock wore off, it felt rather nice and cool.

Here's a still of Sidney in the water. Maybe you can see the mixture of fear and fury in his eyes.

Once they were out of the water it was interesting to see what the two dogs did. Emma ran around like she was on fire ! ! ! ! !

She was so excited and happy to be alive.

Sidney headed right for the dirt under the picnic table and dried himself off:

This, of course, meant another dip in the stream, and then I grabbed him and put him on the table wrapped in towels to get most of the water off. Now we were sitting at some brown painted tables that were half shaded. The sunny part is where we ended up putting Emma as she was actually shivering! The tops of the tables were hot enough to be very uncomfortable on your skin, but Emma was quite content to be on a towel being rubbed down in full sun.

Its weird how their coats are so different. Sidney actually felt warm in the sun, but even with it shining with all its might on her she felt cold to the touch. She did not get warm until she was completely dry.

The way we accomplished that was to use towels at first then regular running for the rest. Here is a picture that I happened to get as she launched into the air after an old ball we found.

 Pretty good capture, eh???!!!